In part, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> It would be good to see someone else's log file I guess. Mine never has a
> space in an email address because it retains only the address itself, and
> that obviously cannot contain a space. I have 6.5 years of procmail log
> file and it contains no examples of extra spaces. Here's the proof:
>
> # egrep '^From ' .procmail/log | gawk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c
> 62533 Fri
> 61566 Mon
> 35030 Sat
> 36271 Sun
> 67671 Thu
> 66921 Tue
> 68171 Wed
>
> Other people might want to try that to see what their usage patterns look
> like (and to test for extra spaces). For me, it looks like Wednesday is
> the biggest email day, then Thursday, then Tuesday, but Monday and Friday
> get about 8% less than midweek and weekends get about 60% less than
> weekdays.
>
> Have a nice weekend!
>
> Mike
Nice hack!
My procmail logs only go back 2002, but yeah, Wednesday is the heaviest day
for incoming:
# egrep '^From ' procmail_log.200{2,3,4,5} | gawk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c
57837 Fri
59187 Mon
44542 Sat
45698 Sun
61966 Thu
61124 Tue
62476 Wed
Slightly more interesting is how the volume of spam seems to be increasing:
# egrep '^From ' procmail_log.200{2,3,4,5} | gawk '{print $4 " " $7 }' | uniq -c
2984 Jan 2002
3022 Feb 2002
3168 Mar 2002
2215 Apr 2002
3297 May 2002
3049 Jun 2002
2898 Jul 2002
3140 Aug 2002
3131 Sep 2002
3135 Oct 2002
2817 Nov 2002
3514 Dec 2002
3409 Jan 2003
3247 Feb 2003
4319 Mar 2003
5628 Apr 2003
5937 May 2003
6277 Jun 2003
7977 Jul 2003
7706 Aug 2003
11059 Sep 2003
13912 Oct 2003
17588 Nov 2003
17911 Dec 2003
9964 Jan 2004
8212 Feb 2004
7599 Mar 2004
8793 Apr 2004
7634 May 2004
8107 Jun 2004
7788 Jul 2004
13026 Aug 2004
13362 Sep 2004
14897 Oct 2004
18789 Nov 2004
16540 Dec 2004
18011 Jan 2005
16586 Feb 2005
17153 Mar 2005
15887 Apr 2005
14036 May 2005
13451 Jun 2005
14037 Jul 2005
7620 Aug 2005 (hey, it's only the 19'th today!)
Thank God for spam filtering!
-S